On the history and implications of the most controversial common name for tradescantia.
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Repotting is an important part of long-term maintenance for any container plant. It’s also a stressful process for a plant to go through. So keeping container plants healthy means repotting when they need it, and only when they need it.
Learn about the golden rules for watering plants, which provide a regular saturation and drying cycle to keep plants healthy. And find out how to apply those rules in practise, and avoid both underwatering and overwatering.
Learn about how I care for my outdoor tradescantias, including soil, watering, and other maintenance.
Find out how water-retentive live sphagnum moss turns out to be a perfect medium for growing these indoor succulents.
To understand plant colour and variegation, we need to consider two factors: the how, and the why.
The how factor is the question, “What physical and chemical processes inside the leaf created the colours we see?”
The why factor is the question, “What caused those physical and chemical processes to happen in that way?”
An FAQ about plant growth regulators (PGRs), covering how and why they are used, and what effects they have on plants.
Two Tradescantia zebrina naming mysteries, solved with one neat reclassification.
This question is surprisingly complex. Find out how many species and cultivars there are in the Tradescantia genus and the whole Commelinaceae family.
There are eighteen different named cultivars of Tradescantia zebrina. Distinguishing them can be tricky!